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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1333
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944404943503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299751118
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4440494

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1539

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the year 1539. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals or institutions that hold the debt or credit. Among the names that appear throughout the ledger and who act as counterparts in the transactions, the most frequent are Alamanno, Ottaviano and Carlo de' Medici; Francesco, Giulietto and Girolamo Rucellai; Enzo and Alfonso Capponi; Pietro Salviati, Lapo del Tonaglia, Giovanbattista Bettini; and the Spedale di Santa Maria Novella. Transactions are sometimes related to the sale of textile products, or to payments for produce or rent, as well as small debts and credits. Most of the individuals who appear in the ledger are members of different Florentine aristocratic families who worked for the Medici as diplomats or statesmen, but who also often acted as business counterparts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Fleche 6299 (Florence, 1518-1528).

Extent

96 leaves : 231 x 108 mm. bound to 237 x 121 mm

Foliation

Paper, 96; [1], 2-43, [44-96]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 44-96 are blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 164 on spine; the heading Richordi no. 11 on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Sometimes long lines are also used.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Financial records
• Paper

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